The Global Ambition of Rick Warren

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Christy Hardin Smith: Obama, McCain And Rick Warren: Calculations At The Intersection Of Faith And Power
Published 8/16/2008 by Christy Hardin Smith at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
On Saturday, Rick Warren will host a forum with Barack Obama and John McCain billed as a discussion on character and values. What is intriguing is the intersection of faith with the scramble for power among Warren's supporters and detractors within the evangelical and wingnut power broker communities. Some commentary has gotten quite shrill: at the Corner, hysterical claims that Obama supports killing live birth babies if their mother ever thought about abortion; and RedState demands an all-or-nothing abortion question ...

Sunday morning at Saddleback Church
Published 8/17/2008 by Mike Madden at Salon
... , the Rev. Rick Warren, for their only joint appearance before the official debates this fall, it was easy to see why Warren is considered such a religious innovator (enough to merit the cover of Time magazine a couple weeks ago). In the same way as Obama claims to represent a new style of politics that doesn't get hung up on the ossified battles of the last generation, Warren's church is aiming for a new style of evangelical Christianity. Warren didn't appear on stage Sunday morning until after the church's musical director, a short, bald man with rimless eyeglasses who ...